2024-12-22T06:35:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150118865/what-happens-when-one-of-youtube-s-most-popular-car-reviewers-reviews-a-house Shane Reiner-Roth 2019-01-28T11:15:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c0/c03ac3bb36a6d8c1ee6b0d122058a1f5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This $2 million house is perched on an ocean cliff. Today I'm showing you the quirks and features of this rather unusual house. It's not a car, but it's still interesting, and quirky, and exciting -- and this house is worth checking out.</p></em><br /><br /><p>What happens when a world famous car reviewer turns his sights towards a house? While on vacation, Doug Demuro of YouTube fame&nbsp;couldn't help but review the 2 million dollar home he was staying in on the island of Nantucket. His insights were impressively thorough and refreshingly unlike those one might expect from an architectural critic or historian.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/db/dbd8efd8d6f978c352e0bcaeb79fbdb1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/db/dbd8efd8d6f978c352e0bcaeb79fbdb1.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Video still. "Here's a Tour of a $2 Million House on an Ocean Cliff." YouTube.</figcaption></figure><p>Demuro highlighted the "quirks and features" of the custom-built home, just as he does the production cars on his channel to a fan base of over 2.5 million subscribers, including the porthole window in the upper bedroom, the sunken outdoor eating area and its interminable outlet layout.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d5/d523140883c9e50e1693e437ce5dd5e0.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d5/d523140883c9e50e1693e437ce5dd5e0.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Video still. "Here's a Tour of a $2 Million House on an Ocean Cliff." YouTube.</figcaption></figure><p>Watch below for the full review, and consider whether we might anticipate a future in which architecture is the subject of study on YouTube in the same fashion as we have normalized car reviews and...</p>